iguana@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin C Kaminer):| >| The material collected will also be made available via the WWW. I would| >| be very grateful if anyone with experiences, anecdotes or opinions in| >| the following areas would see fit to contribute them....

gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:| >I notice that you don't mention sabotage and subversion,| >which will become increasingly important diversions for the| >employed and semi-employed as production systems become more| >complex.

griffith@crl.com (Dave Griffith):| An old dream, but an unrealistic one. Sabotage is only a meaningful | occupation near the end-stages of social breakdown. Before then, you| just can't generate enough effect to make it worth the effort, and | the campaign breaks down of its own futility. (I disregard tactical | sabotage ('Keep the bridge out of commission from 1200 to 1500, but| no earlier') as it requires coordination beyond the capacity of | the general populace.) Even the height of the Luddite and French | Resistance sabotage campaigns yielded little in the way of effect.

I did not mean sabotage as a means to an end, but an end in
itself. There is hardly any point in bringing a business
down these days, when it's going to go bankrupt, be bought
out, or move to Indonesia in a year or two anyway.